Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 225
Yes, exactly. Exactly. That the zoo is for people and we have to fulfill their expectations. Now you mentioned people coming to the zoo. Read More
Yes, exactly. Exactly. That the zoo is for people and we have to fulfill their expectations. Now you mentioned people coming to the zoo. Read More
Yes. And it would be about the people?… Read More
Curators are responsible for the animals and they don’t interest at all for visitors. A zoo is a place where animals and people meet, but they are so strictly concentrated on the animals and the welfare, on the breeding programs, et cetera, feeding and are just very important. But they,… Read More
So would you have specific things you would want to train your curators to do or understand?… Read More
There are many entertainment parks, all kinds of institutions. But the difference is that no one has, are animals and an animal and a zoo does good to concentrate on the animals and not start with attractions like roundabout and, and et cetera. We should concentrate on animals, but make… Read More
What if you were training, what would you include in a training program to make curators excellent?… Read More
Yeah. What is the zoo?… Read More
What do you believe is the zoo’s strong point to compete and how does the zoo sell it?… Read More
They come to the opinion that he has done right Because we always have to, from time to time, kill animals, surplus animals who animals and feed them to the great cats. For instance, lions, tigers in Denmark, Copenhagen recently or two, three years ago. They even publicly of giraffe… Read More
Of course. Of course they are. Read More
And, and what conclusion, what opinion did the, does the group come to?… Read More
And the, these animal rights people, they don’t understand because each animal has a right of living of life and you can’t destroy any life. So this is a, a two very opposite situations. Those on the one side who managed their collections and the animal right People not so… Read More
Is this something that the zoo directors are concerned with and, and wrestle with?… Read More
I think it’s never good. You, you can’t hide anything in zoo. Everything will go out via the animal keepers, via visitors. So you, you cannot hide anything in the zoo. And it was very brave of this director to announce it in, in in advance. And also when it… Read More
You have to speak with them. Some of these organizations are not willing to speak with you. So this is useless. But the big welfare organizations in Germany, they’re ready to talk and we can convince them of what we are doing. I, if you like, I can give you… Read More
And they wanted to kill them. And they very frankly published this meaning in the media in advance. But, and then they killed the, the baboons, quite a number 12 individuals. And there was a, what do we say, a shit storm in the media. And the director gets say… Read More
Can you talk about animal welfare groups in Europe and their relationship with zoos?… Read More
Can you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these groups?… Read More
I think there’s not, not much difference between the big zoos and smaller zoos. It’s just a matter of scale. Also being cologne, we have endangered species, we have non species. We keep some species for historical reasons, which are not endangered at all. But it is some, somehow reflecting… Read More
Should it be non endangered species?… Read More